Adalina
Feminine · Germanic roots · “noble”
Adalina belongs to a family of names built on one old Germanic word for "noble" — the same root behind Adela, Adelaide, Adeline and Adelina. The -ina ending is the Italian and Spanish way of softening a name, so an ancient root arrives here wearing an affectionate finish. Four syllables, every vowel open, the weight landing on the LEE.
How old is the name Adalina?
Adalina first appears in US birth records in 1922 — 103 years ago. The typical Adalina is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,300 people named Adalina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adalina most popular?
Adalina peaked in 2024, reaching #1305 nationally. Today it ranks #1341, 36 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adal (Germanic element) to Adalina
The story of Adalina
The starting point is adal, a Germanic word meaning "noble," one of the most productive name-elements in early medieval Europe — it built Adalbert, Adelheid and, through them, Adelaide. Shortened forms such as Adala and Adela circulated on the Continent, and the Normans carried Adeline across to England. In Italian, Spanish and Portuguese the same short form took the affectionate ending -ina and became Adelina, widely used across southern Europe and later in Latin America. Adalina is that name with the older vowel of the root restored, and it reads naturally in both English and Spanish.
Meaning
noble
The root is the Germanic element adal, "noble," which sits inside a long list of older compound names; the -ina ending is a diminutive suffix rather than a second element with its own meaning.
How the name formed
- AdalGermanic element
- Adela
- Adelina
- Adalina
Related forms: Adelina · Adelina · Adeline · Adaline · Adele · Adelina
Pronouncing Adalina
ad-uh-LEE-nuh
In Spanish and Italian the same spelling is said ah-dah-LEE-nah, with a fuller first vowel. Both are correct; families often use one at home and accept the other outside it.
Nicknames for Adalina
High
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1922
- Most girls named
- 2024176 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1305reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −6.3%165 in 2025, from 176
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Adalina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Adelina in Italian — spelling variant
- Adelina in Spanish — spelling variant
- Adeline in French — related form
- Adaline in English — spelling variant
- Adele in German — related form
- Adelina in Polish — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Adalinas among us
people named Adalina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 9,741 born in 2025 was named Adalina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sharol test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Adalina's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Sharol climbed just as high around 1943, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sharol's path sketches the road Adalina is walking now.
Adalina sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Adalina is headed
Adalina should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Adalina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Adalina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Comes with short forms already in real use — Ada, Lina, Addie — so a child has options without anyone inventing one.
- Reads and pronounces naturally in both English and Spanish, which is useful in a bilingual family.
- Sits inside a well-known cluster (Adeline, Adalyn, Adelina, Adelaide), so it is familiar to the ear on first hearing.
- Traceable in an unbroken line to an early medieval Germanic name-element, not a recent coinage.
- The A/E vowel is the sticking point: Adelina, Adaline and Adeline are all live spellings, so she will spend her life saying "Adalina, with an A in the middle."
- Stress moves with the language — ad-uh-LEE-nuh in English, ah-dah-LEE-nah in Spanish — and she may hear both from different people in the same week.
- Most bearers in the US today are children, so there are few adult namesakes to point to. She will likely be the only Adalina in her school, which some kids love and some find tiring.
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Frequently asked
- How many Adalinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Adalina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Adalina in 2025?
- Adalina ranks #1341 among US girl names in 2025, with 165 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Adalina?
- About 1 in every 9,741 US girls born in 2025 was named Adalina — 165 in all.
- Will my child share the name Adalina with classmates?
- Adalina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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